yo. where do you like to go on the internet?
name your favorite websites (better if niche), your favorite communities (again, better if niche), interesting instagram pages, interesting profiles to follow on any social media, podcasts, web forums, discord server, strange exotic communities, tumblr, horny stuff, videos, whatever. Don’t self censor yourself please!
(cross-posted: https://hexbear.net/post/415928)
One of my favorite sites: https://www.windows93.net/
There is also this one; it’s an actual genuine Windows 95 running on WASM in your browser
Running Win95 on a cell phone.
Damn thats wild! I remember I wished I could run Windows on a phone back in 00-ish instead of those crappy, brand-specific phone OS’s. What else was I gonna use a phone for, its not like I had anyone to call. Now I can.
Still nobody to call, though…
ok this is cool
I had to find the author: http://jankenpopp.com/ and he is so creative and skilled. wonderful stuff, and great link, thanks!
This blog is incredible:
https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
There aren’t many articles, but the ones that exist have been crafted with EXTREME attention to detail and DELIGHTFULLY interactive animations. I would recommend the mechanical watch and internal combustion engine posts specifically to start. If you like knowing how things work, this guys blog scratches that itch better than like, anything else I have found for the specific things he makes posts about. Have fun, be prepared to kill a few hours.
I love blogs, specially from people with niche interests and experiences. I follow them via RSS. So that’s what I read outside of Lemmy / Reddit / Mastodon.
Recently I’ve been following the blog written by an IT guy working in a research station in Antarctica (also has a great domain name).
ahah wow thanks! how did you find it? the post about south pole signage is kinda hilarious https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-signage
https://cari.institute/aesthetics
Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, it’s a neat website showing design trends in advertising, packaging, print, etc throughout the years.
this is incredibly cool omg!!! thank you!
I might be boring here, but outside of Lemmy, none of the websites I frequent are niche.
YouTube, Wikipedia, Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our Own, MAL, sci-hub, eBay, TV Tropes, Reddit (though I only read now, I don’t participate in the discussions since July).
What do you like to watch on youtube?
A wide variety of content. I really like watching cooking related channels like Food Wishes, Alex (French Guy Cooking), Ethan Chlebowski, Jun’s Kitchen, Italia Squisita, ETC.
For tech I like Level1Techs and related channels, Serve the Home, MKBHD, Der8auer, Jeff Geerling, Gamer’s Nexus, Northwest Repair, Louis Rossmann, maker.moekoe.
For science I like Huygens Optics, The Thought Emporium, Veritasium, Dr. Becky, AlphaPhoenix, Steve Mould, and many others.
For music, I like Polyphia, Ichika Nito, BERNTH, CharlesBerthoud, BAND-MAID, Paolo Gans, Ado, Syudou, ELFENSJóN, ETC…
For fountain pens I like Flexperiments (the channel has 237 subbs, but really deserves more), and Doodlebud.
Others: Not Just Bikes, GxAce, Tom Scott, Inheritance Machining, The Bioneer.
awesome! i am going to check those, I just knew few of them (Veritasium, CharlesBerthoud, Louis Rossmann, Italia Squisita, etc)
Let me know which categories interest you, I may have more recommendations.
fuck yeah fanfiction.net and Tv Tropes! Loved those back in the day.
you can do everything!
Hackaday.com is my favourite blog on the Internet and I’ve been reading it for over a decade, it never gets boring.
Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection. Just a bunch of cool puzzles for wasting time. No ads or bells and whistles.
You can download them or just play in the browser. Someone also made the collection into an Android app, which I usually use.
Someone posted a link to this site the other day and now I’m hooked https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/
It’s German but this guy has been blogging since the beginning of time http://blog.fefe.de/
https://gurushots.com/ photography challenges, quite fun.
https://flickr.com/ photography community
I translated some stuff in that German blog. It’s kinda wild, vaccination damage and the KGB mixed with more far right conspiracy theories and then just general normal stuff.
There used to be this plugin and site called something like “Stumble Upon”. You click on the big Stumble button and it takes you to a random place on the WWW based on your interests. It was awesome. I miss it. Anyone know something similar that still works?
That was how I discovered Reddit, didn’t realise it was gone…
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I still use Reddit, just not on my phone since their app suck and is full of ads.
Tagpro.gg - fun lil browser game
Dear lord. Is full of tryhards. Got banned because I was learning to play… in my 2nd match.
Cute lil game tho.
Yeah the community is so small and everyone playing has been playing awhile and is way above the entry skill level, which makes the matches uninviting to new players so the community gets smaller due to no new blood which just feeds into the problem. the game’s unfortunately on its last legs because of it
Sounds like someone needs to explain that to the community. Seems stupid but people need to understand that they need to have patience with noobs so more people will play which is good for everyone.
I’ve seen similar behavior in CSGO casual and called it out. Feel free to be an eletist asshole in comp, but NEVER in casual.
I love the orange and black website!!!